NLP History & the Field

by Steve Andreas©2000         Fairly often people object to having newly-minted NLP Practitioners doing therapy (even if they call it “counseling,” or “personal change,” or something else). Typically there are two kinds of concern: 1.    “How well can someone be helped?” and 2.    “What is the danger that someone might be harmed?” by an inappropriate method, or […]

(at a few of the bends and dips in the road)*by Steve Andreas©2000  “I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult.”—E.B. White         From a very early age I have been blessed (and cursed) with a penchant for

by Steve Andreas & Connirae Andreas, Ph.D.~A methodical approach to spontaneous change A friend of ours once told about a couple who had survived a fiery plane accident a few years ago. They both experienced the horror of the crash and the flames, the pain of serious injuries, the struggle to escape, and the relief

by Steve Andreas & Connirae Andreas, Ph.D.first published in The Vak,Volume X, No. 1, Winter 1991-92, p. 1. Seminar participants often ask how a particular NLP pattern evolves. If we can track how new patterns evolve, we can help point the way to further useful discoveries and developments. Every pattern has many antecedents, and most patterns

by Connirae and Steve Andreas Seminars and training are a way to gain many skills, abilities, and attitudes well worth learning. Since training is a significant investment of your time and money, it’s important to know how to identify excellent training as soon as possible, and to spot mediocre training in advance. We suggest being

by Steve Andreas In recent years, Carmen Bostic St. Clair and John Grinder have proposed a number of distinctions and characterizations of modeling. A recent article (38) proposed that their kind of unconscious, second position, behavioral modeling is the only true NLP modeling, and that all other NLP modeling is of lesser value. Their book Whispering